Officials are probing how a 51-year-old highway bridge came to collapse in the Italian port city of Genoa yesterday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 16 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.

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While showers are set to continue for the rest of the weekend, conditions are expected to improve by next week.

"This particular weather is forecast to move through fairly quickly in the next 24 hours but we won't really see significant improvement until Monday and then it's all cleared by Tuesday," senior meteorologist Craig Burke told AAP on Saturday.